Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-29
CHASED BY HIS WIFE.
A Tickle Pill Prescriber
Overtaken in his Flight.
Drawing 4he Elements 10 Run Down
Her Naughty Liege Lord and
Master.

NEW YORK, July eS.-There Is q dis
tracted Austrian physician In this city.
His name is Otto s~chnoepps, and he is as
wild q married man as ever administered
blue pills or amputated q leR. Abont six
years ago he married In Vienna, whore
he was practicing medicine. For the
best Of reasons, as he says, he left his
wife the morning after their marriage.
She did not submit calmly to the separa-
tion, however. She made life 80 misers-
BILE for the doctor that he fed from vi
emma, and hid himself in Odessa under an
assumed name. Nevertheless, in a few
months, she found him out, and de-
nounced him to the Russian authorities
as an Austrian spy. He only escaped be-
ing sent to Siberia by q miracle, and,
concealed In the hold of a Black Sea
steamer he was carried to Constantinople.
There he took the third name and ac-
CURED a large practice. But Of no avail.
One day his pert1nacfous wife stood be-
fore him and announced her intention Of
staying with him until death did them
part.
DIR. Schoeppe submitted to his fate for
q while, but the situation became intoler-
able. This time he determined to leave
no trace behind him II possible. One day
he was summoned to attend an English
nobleman, who was taken sick In hia
private yacht, which was lying In the
Bosphorus, not far from the city. The
report was brought to his wife that the
boat which was conveying him to the
yacht had capsized and that he had been
drowned. The bostmen in their wet
clothes, who had been rescued at the last
gasp, brought the news to Mrs. Schnoeppe
and gave her a graphic account of her
husbands death.
All their stories were false, however, as
the sequel proves, and did not deceive
Mrs. schnoeppe very long, If they did at
all. DR.. Schnoeppe, instead of being q
"demmed moist, unpleasant body was
a very lively passenger for Marseilles.
This time he determined to take a very
long flight, indeed. He did not stop I'M
til he got to this city. Feeling sure that
his wife would not search for him again,
he assumed his real name for the first
time since leaving Vienna, and began to
practice medicine among the Germans
living in the east side of the city. He
got along fairly well, and was beginning
to be a happy man once more when one
pa 4,oS0, IA oCL III tOlu
him q lady patient wished to see him In
his Office. He went gayly In, thinking Of
the expected fee. His wife greeted him
in pure German:
"Otto, you cannot escape me while you
are alive. You married me and you must
support me-
A stormy scene ensued, which ended
by the doctor summoning a policeman.
But she was equal to the occasion. AT
the station house she, through an inter.
pretor, made a charge Of abandonmel
against her husband, and he staid in the
station house, while She departed free.
In the police court the next morning DR..
Schoeppe was sentenced to pay his wife
$40 a week for her support or 60 to Jail
for IN indefinite period. With groan he
agreed to pay S5, but sven then the i'm
patient woman was not satisfied. She
got q lawyer to bring a suit for divorce
on the ground Of abandonment, and the
lawyer got a decree for $20 a week tenn
porary alimony, and $3.50 counsel fee.
DR.. Schoeppe swears he Will not stand
1t, but as his only remaining place Of ref
uge seems to be Central Africa or the
North Pole he is nearlyfat his wits end.